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Marvin V Blake

"Precious

""In His Sight"" "

Marvin V Blake

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English
Marvin V. Blake
24 July 2023
Memoirs; Family history, tracing ancestors
"The novel, ""Precious"" (In His Sight), tells of the myriad, life-altering U.S. Government-sanctioned and implemented, changes..., societal (1864 - 1887), events, that followed, and the conclusion of the American Civil War, that shaped the ""Re-United States of America"".

Shortly before the election of Abraham Lincoln as the 16th President of the United States, Eleanor Leary-a young Irish-Immigrant educator-, is summarily discharged by her employer, the Master of Richmond Virginia's, Rosewood Cotton Plantation, for the ""Heinous-Crime"", of teaching a black-slave, to read and write.

Disappointed, depressed, and disillusioned, Eleanor Leary, relocates, north of the Mason-Dixon line, to the northern state of Pennsylvania, marries..., and for the entirety of the war, teaches at the town's local college.

Rebecca Billing-one of the two white children that Eleanor had taught before the war; Rebecca after having left Virginia...; and, following a year, living as a captive of the Comanche-returns to Richmond, and gives birth to a ""mixed-blood"", child.

Because of unrelenting racial bigotry inflicted upon her son, Rebecca leaves Richmond Virginia, and settles in Lost Springs, Kansas.

During the post-war period of ""Reconstruction"", both Eleanor, and Rebecca- separated by time and half a continent-, work tirelessly, assisting the former..., now freed black slaves, and the ""Plains Indians"" ..., now referred to as ""The Reservation-Indians"", to acquire the skills needed to assimilate..., and to survive in Euro-Centric, American society."
By:  
Imprint:   Marvin V. Blake
Edition:   Large type / large print edition
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 24mm
Weight:   617g
ISBN:   9798988607168
Pages:   422
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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